Vouvant Side Holidays

Mélusine accomodates you. Vouvant accomodates you too. A ballade with Vouvant. Charming commune of the south the Vendée, Vouvant is one of the most beautiful village of France.
Mervent, a main forest of oak.
Distinguished “Small Cities from Character” this medieval city, Vouvant also carries the colors of the label “One of the more village of France” and also “Flowered City 2 flowers”. To leave Fontenay-The-Count to take direction the Chestnut grove. To semi way turn right and plunge in the splendid main forest that the Vendean ones of the south the Vendée names the forest of Mervent, old property of the templiers of XIIe century. There with less than ten kilometers you are surprised by a dive in time.

Vouvant a village of character.
It is said that Mélusine always takes care… Immediately, the visitor is envoûté by the charm of the narrow lanes of Vouvant which walk on between the schist houses. Passed the first houses restored carefully mixing the stone, sand and lime, as of the crossed coast, you are accomodated by the ramparts and the keep, the Tower Mélusine vestiges of the powerful fortress of Lusignan which dominates the enclosure of the city. Built at the beginning of XIe on order of Guillaume the Large Duke of Aquitaine, Vouvant is only strengthened borough of the Vendée at that time. At the next century, the family of Lusigan makes build enclosing walls with three doors (Bouguerin, Moynes and the Postern).
Informed well by the tourist bureau of Vouvant “the Mélusine House” you will first of all direct your steps in the Tower of Mélusine. Do not forget to take the key with the coffee of the Mélusine Tower, if not you will not enter the tower. Provided with this invaluable sesame, you will climb the steps of the tower with two intermediate rooms and you will enjoy the reward of your efforts by the panoramic sight of the top of the tower. With your feet the South the Vendée. With far the Chestnut grove, other dimensioned, the meander of the Sea which protects the ramparts, all the village of Vouvant. Then, it is necessary for you to descend and continue your visit.
The village awaits you to proudly show you its as beautiful streets and its places the ones as the others. The Place of the Lease, its wells, the Court of the Miracle, the place of the Body of Guard, the Low street, the street of the Postern and the door of the Postern, the Romance bridge, the laundrette, the garden of the Priory and the extraordinary church by its nave Théodelin and its absidioles northern of richly carved XVe century and its gate of XIe century and its framed twin doors of curves with varied reasons.
Perhaps you will be likely to see the silhouette serpine of Mélusine and especially do not surprise beautiful the night in its bath without risking the worst torments. You will not regret the visit of this beautiful village of the Vendée which is Vouvant.